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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

Jonathan Swift

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Appearance Goodness Himself Positive Quality Talk
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
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Alive Book Myself Reading Talk
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
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Man Myself See Shame Wickedness Wonder
We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
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Element Friendship Love Praise Sick Togetherness
One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
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Ability Enemy Friendship Goodness Hurt Oneself
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
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Company Goodness Love Myself Worst
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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Ideas Man One Liner
Don’t set your wit against a child.
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Children One Liner
The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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Fly Kind Man Thinking
I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.
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Black Man People Purpose Slave Society Word
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Corruption Politics Understand Word
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
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Hard Need Rich
There’s none so blind as they that won’t see.
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Blind Eyes See
If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Advice Fall Food Taste Yourself
It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.
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Believe Occasion Time Work
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Cut Desire Need Ourselves Shoes System

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

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We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

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